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This book is awesome. A town goes to war with another town. It is brutal and bewildering and beautifully pure in its crazed violence. I like this better than his novel Pontypool (from which the interesting and fun Zombie movie was made) and would LOVE to see a film of this.
If you aren’t reading Tony Burgess, you are missing out on one of Canada’s best authors, period, not to mention some of the most gripping, experimental horror in the genre.
I was so busy being disturbed while reading this book that I could barely pay attention to what it is about. I liked it, but also spent a few pages trying not to gag.I'm not surprised that this is Canadian literature. The isolation and violence of small town Ontario is not only believable but needs no motivation.
This is such a prettily designed little book of sudden appalling death, exploding skulls, pitchforks in legs and geysers of viscera incarnadine that I just had to take a step back. Anvil Press of Vancouver are probably not expecting to sell millions of this book, all due respect, yet they make it look great, feel great, they use quality paper and they include lots of gorgeous grungy photos throughout. Meanwhile, the latest Stephen King comes out with a crap cover and looks and feels like any oth...
tribe wipes out tribe in Rwanda, Nigeria, elsewhere. entire villages are mysteriously decimated in Peru, Algeria, elsewhere. neighbors slaughter neighbors in the former Yugoslavia and elsewhere. in Canada, the residents of the small town of Ravenna decide to massacre the residents of the equally small town of Collingwood. the first victims that we see: a mother caring for her sick child. why? can there ever really be a reason for such things? a reason that makes sense, a reasonable reason, an ex...
I'm feel bad giving a one star review, but here's the format of this book: random scene, a bunch of people are violently murdered, cut to another random scene, more murder, etc. And that's it. Nothing else happens. I get that literature needs its extremes, from Chick Lit to this violent stuff, but there's no story telling here. There are no real characters. Just violent act after violent act and no matter how you wrap it up as "social commentary", this book is ultimately repetitive and there's n...
oh god tony burgess, you are such a sick fuck.i am terrified of tony burgess, i really am. this book in particular is such a barrage of bloodshed and senseless brutality. he claims to have intended it as a commentary on war - on regular people getting caught in the crossfire of violence as collateral damage, but this explanation is not comforting if you are just reading this book without that knowledge. it is a series of short stories, taking place in the same ontario neighborhood, in which peop...
